If the Reds named Bryan Price manager, he'd join the Padres' Bud Black (pictured) and John Farrell of the Red Sox as managers who were pitching coaches.

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If Bryan Price is indeed promoted from the Reds' pitching coach to their manager, he'll be just the third current manager in baseball who was a pitcher and has been a pitching coach. He'll also be just the sixth current manager that didn't play in the majors.

Current Padres manager and former big-league pitcher Bud Black says the reason more pitching coaches aren't made managers is not because they are undervalued, but because they are actually overvalued. If the current postseason is showing us nothing else, it's that dominant pitching leads to postseason success, and when you have a ...